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1. 1980: Which Bruce Springsteen hit single, originally written for The Ramones to perform, was his first Top Ten hit in the U.S.?
2. 1981: There are many phone numbers you may have forgotten during your lifetime, but I bet this wasn't one of them: What was Jenny's phone number?
3. 1982: Dexy's Midnight Runners released a single that scored high on the US pop charts and commanded Top Single of the Year on the pop charts. Unfortunately, they could not follow up on the single's success and faded into pop music history as a one-hit wonder, at least in th US. What was the single?
4. 1983: The Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart, while working on the group's album that would be released this year, accidentally played a track backwards. The odd sound produced by this mishap inspired the notable synth-bass heard in the group's most successful single. What was it?
5. 1984: A new artist with a one-word name, 'Shannon', burst onto the dance and pop scene. What was the name of her first and biggest single, which hit #8 on the U.S. Pop charts and #1 on the Dance/R&B charts?
6. 1985: A group called "USA For Africa", comprised of many of the day's top artists, collaborated under producer Quincy Jones to create a historic tune to address the famine crisis in African countries. What was the name of this single?
7. 1986 was a great year for this former member of Genesis, who not only scored a #1 hit single from his album "SO", but also saw two other cuts from that album make it into the Top 40. The video for that #1 single, incidentally, racked up 9 MTV Music Awards, the most in history. Who is this very fortunate artist?
8. 1987: Up to this point, U2 had achieved considerable success in their native Ireland as well as the UK, but had never achieved a #1 hit in the U.S. That all changed in May of this year with what single from their "Joshua Tree" album?
9. 1988: A skinny 22-year old British kid (who looked all of 16 years old) with an extraordinarily HUGE voice saw his album, "Whenever You Need Somebody", reach #10 on the U.S. pop charts and #1 on the Canadian pop charts in June of this year. (It had already reached #1 in his native UK the previous November.) Name this singer who had such hits as "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Together Forever".
10. And finally, an easy one for 1989: The Andrae Crouch Choir provided background vocals on this single whose video started a controversy in the religious community. What was it?
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